The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

- Sherry Turkle

We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for indi…

- Sherry Turkle

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

- Sherry Turkle

Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fe…

- Sherry Turkle

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connec…

- Sherry Turkle

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout …

- Sherry Turkle

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to …

- Sherry Turkle

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

- Sherry Turkle

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusi…

- Sherry Turkle